Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question of Leadership, intended for national ITV broadcast, was criticised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its explicitly anti-government stance. It was eventually screened a year later, exclusively in the Midlands (tx. 13/8/1981). Believing that the then-new Channel 4 would be more amenable to politicised documentaries, Loach proposed the four-part Questions of Leadership (1983), a wider-ranging study of the trade union movement - but on viewing the completed programmes' strong criticism of leading trade unionists, an anxious Channel 4 shortened the series to two parts and proposed screening a 'balancing' documentary by a different filmmaker, before scrapping the broadcast altogether.

Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.

Pop music quiz show.

The quiet life of a local pizza chef begins to unravel after a family secret is revealed through a series of dreams with clues that lead to a mysterious past.

Sporting celebrities are quizzed on their own and others' sports.

The brutal murder of a woman appears to be an open and shut case. But while there is a suspect and a signed confession, the lack of a credible motive still nags the investigating officer and prosecuting lawyer.

A young woman sets out to get revenge against a rich man who murdered her lover.

A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.

A man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.